Melbourne hit by summer storm with heavy rain, flash flooding, and power outages

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Melbourne has been drenched as a summer storm dumped heavy rain on the city and surrounding areas. The system caught many by surprise, causing flash flooding and leaving thousands of homes without power in its wake.

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00:00Rivers in the city, water features in the suburbs and a warning area reaching from Melton

00:10to Montfagie.

00:12Melbourne's city, south east and inner north were initially in the eye of the system.

00:17Certainly was heavy rain and particularly heavy rain to fall in such a short space of

00:21time.

00:2225mm was dumped on Olympic Park in less than an hour, more than half of Melbourne's monthly

00:27average for January.

00:30Not everyone's feathers were ruffled with the summer deluge, but there was traffic chaos

00:35as motorists inched through floodwaters.

00:39Some public transport services were delayed.

00:4210,000 homes were left without power, the SES receiving more than 200 calls for assistance

00:48as the storm passed across the suburbs.

00:51Because it was moving through fairly quickly, we did not see any records set, but still

00:56a very wet day for the city.

00:59The cell tracking east to Gippsland, with sail copping more than 30mm.

01:04The storm cell hit with little warning, but was over just as quickly.

01:08It won't be the last of the wet weather though, with showers and thunderstorms forecast in

01:12Melbourne over the coming week.

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